PROGRESS Chapter 23: What A Time To Be Alive

Much of the excitement surrounding PROGRESS Wrestling recently has been focussed on their debut show in Manchester, understandable seeing as it represents perhaps the most significant expansion they have taken as a company so far. Before that show however, they had one more event of the year at the Electric Ballroom in Camden- Chapter 23: What A Time To Be Alive and had lined up a card that was a mouth watering prospect, stacked with potentially great matches. In the main event, Will Ospreay would defend the PROGRESS title against TNA’s Mark Andrews in a contest that, if anywhere near as good as their collisions at Chapter’s 4 & 7, would be quite something. Allied to that, Flash Morgan Webster was set to face Zack Gibson for the former’s Natural Progression Series 2 trophy, and the guaranteed title shot that goes with it, The Sumerian Death Squad were defending the PROGRESS Tag Titles in a 3-way match versus The London Riots and The Origin, and Marty Scurll would be going up against recent NXT signing, Tomasso Ciampa. After what was an average (at least by PROGRESS’ standards) Chapter 22, it was as if the company had something to prove (and possibly also remind their London fans of how good they can be ahead of their first main Chapter show to take place outside of the capital).